Lighting of the bottom! AT LAST! - Toyota Cresta, 2.5 L, 1997

Finally, I fulfilled a very long-standing desire and still put on the backlight. Thanks to the person under the nickname AVP-Ufa from this site, for saying where it was fashionable to buy this backlight. I searched the Internet for a very long time, but either the size did not fit, or the price did not suit ... in general, after periodic searches, this miracle was found. In general what was ordered: RTW-5000P 12V RGB tape (5060, 150 LED), 5 meters long, and ARF16B color controller (12 / 24V, 180 / 360W, RF-DU 16kn). all this cost 3800. plus delivery from Moscow 300 rubles. further on were purchased wires, corrugations, fastening clamps, a corner from the Armstrong ceilings and other small things. the installation was not as easy as I thought. and it was all about the wires. bought a telephone wire for 4 wires. the problem was that the wires are quite fragile, and after wrapping them with isolate and installing them in a corner, after a lot of bending back and forth, one of the wires could break off at the place of the solder. in the end, after 3-4 times of soldering, reworking, which took a lot of time, because after installation, already thinking that everything was done normally, already leaving the garage, you notice, FUCK, again one color does not burn. in the end I decided to give up on the whole thing, and look for new, more durable wires, so that at the same time they could easily fit into the corrugation. in the end it was decided to take a cable similar to the one that connects to a hard drive or sd-rom in a computer. this time I made the right decision, but a new problem appeared. the wires were poorly soldered to the diode tape. for this I used acid for the solder. everything was well soldered. only this acid turned out to be a conductor and staying between the contacts, closed them. by the end, all the wires were soldered into place, each contact was isolated separately from each other, everything was wrapped with electrical tape, shrinked and everything was set in place. there are no pictures of the last, finishing installation, since there was no time for this and there was a desire to put everything in place. it was all powered by a cigarette lighter, and a color control unit was placed under the passenger seat.